I'm writing a mata function say:
transmorphic matrix chak(real colvector dim1, real colvector
dim2, | real colvector pop , real scalar b)
{......}
in which "pop" and the scalar "b" are optional arguments as
you can see above
My question is how to code the optional arguments. I want that
if user dont specifies the vector "pop" mata must replace it
by a vector of ones and similary for b.
Following the help my solution was
nb_arg=args()
if (nb_arg<3) pop=J(rows(dim1),1,1)
if (nb_arg<4) b=1
but this solution don't allow the user to specifies the
scalar b and omit the 3rd argument pop
Any help
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